[custom_adv] Earlier this morning, an oil tanker hit a passenger bus in Sanandaj, causing an explosion and a fire that killed 13 people in the tail. [custom_adv] The bus stopped for a passenger on the back of a van, suddenly as the tanker collided with a bus, the explosion sounded up and the tanker and the bus simultaneously fired. [custom_adv] Sanandaj is the capital of Kurdistan Province. With a population of 414,069, Sanandaj's founding is fairly recent, (about 200 years ago), yet under its short existence it has grown to become a center of Kurdish culture. [custom_adv] The population of Sanandaj is mainly Kurdish. The city also had an Armenian minority who gradually emigrated from the city. [custom_adv] The city boasted a sizable Assyrian community that spoke a unique dialect of Aramaic called Senaya. The economy of Sanandaj is based upon the production of carpets, processed hides and skins, milled rice, refined sugar, woodworking, cotton weaving, metalware and cutlery. [custom_adv] The Ardalani dialect of Kurdish is spoken in Sanandaj and its surroundings. Ardalani dialect is distinct to Kurdistan province and is spoken in Sanandaj and other cities of Kurdistan province. [custom_adv] The other important dialect of Sorani Kurdish is Mokriani which is spoken in Mokrian region in the cities of Piranshahr and Mahabad in West Azerbaijan province. [custom_adv] Sanandaj is home to the ruins of an 11th- and 12th- century fortress, the Dar al-Ehsan Mosque, and the Sanandaj Museum. [custom_adv] The museum is housed in a 19th-century royal palace whose Arusi Room, or Wedding Room, is considered a masterpiece of handcrafted woodwork. Kurdistan University, founded after the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, is also in the city. [custom_adv] Earlier this morning, an oil tanker hit a passenger bus in Sanandaj, causing an explosion and a fire that killed 13 people in the tail. [custom_adv] The bus stopped for a passenger on the back of a van, suddenly as the tanker collided with a bus, the explosion sounded up and the tanker and the bus simultaneously fired.
